Building block



Feb 1923,

5.. QUILLET. BUILDING BLOCK FILED IYIAR.3I, 1921.

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EDMOND QUILLET, C11 VIEVEY, SWITZERLAND.

BUILDING: BLOCK.

(GRANTED UNDER THE PRGVISIQITS 0F THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. L,1313.)

i 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMOND QUrLLn'r, a citizen of Republic 01Switzerland, residing at Vevey, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, haveinvented an Improvement in Building Blocks, for which I have filedapplications and obtained patents in various countries as follows:Switzerland, filed June 23, 1917, Patent No. 78,050, June 23. 1 17,Great Britain, filed June 23, 191?, Patent No. 117,260, June 23, 1917;France, filed January 22, 1918, Patent No. 188,524, Jana ary 22, 1918;Italy, filed January 29, 1919, Patent No. 127,951, 159-501, January 29,1919; and Spain, filed February 8, 1919, Fatent No. 69,082, February 8,1919, and on which I have also filed applications in Germany under dateof June 10, 1918, and in Belgium under date of June 23, 1919, and ofwhich the following is. a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in and relating to buildingbricks or slabs and to structures formed therefrom and the presentinvention is characterized by the combination of a variable number ofbricks provided with holes parallel to each other, traversing the brickthrough and through and having at each of their ends an enlargementarranged to receive a pin, which may be tubular adapted to connect twoadjacent bricks together, without the said pin penetrating into the holeinto which it is fitted, further than a predetermined depth.

The accompanying drawings, furnished by way of example show some of thecombinations of bricks of the kind specified above for variousconstructions.

Fig. 1 is a plan and partial cross section illustrating a form ofbuilding block made in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a partial cross section and side elevation of the buildingblock shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan and cross section of another form of building block.

Fig. 1 is an elevation and partial section on line 1- 1, Fig. 3.

- Fig. 5 is a plan and partial cross section, illustrating a third formof building block.

Fig. 6 is an elevation and partial cross section shown on line 66, Fig.5.

Fig. I is a plan of a fourth form of build ing block.

Fig. 8 is a section on line ABG of Fig. 7, and

Fig. 9 is a plan of another form of build ing block.

The brick represented in Figure 1 is the most simple expression of theunits forming the system of construction. It is composed of a body 0:the section oi? which can be seen in the broken away part of Figure 1;this body a is pierced from end to end with two cylindrical holes 5parallel to each other and each having a cylindrical enlargement c and(Z. (In two of its small sides the brick a is provided with a projectingtongue 6 (preferably semi-circular) and on its two other small sideswith a corresponding groove f adapted to engage in the groove 0 of theadjacent brick. The enlargements c and (Z each contain a cylindrical pinw (see Figure 2) the length or" which is equal to twice the depth of thesaid enlargements so that each pin engages halt-way into the brickconsidered and into that which is superposed upon it. The body a of thebrick is generally executed in cement concrete and the pins a: maylikewise be 01 cement or else 01"- iron. In this latter case they arepreferably formed of lengths of pipe, which allows of passing into theholes Z; of a series of superposed bricks. a bar of iron which can beburied therein in a filling of cement.

The said pins are preferably made of re inforced concrete.

As will be seen from the dotted lines in Figure 1, one of the faces ofthe brick de scribed above may be fiat, in place 01" being provided witha groove.

In the construction described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 thebrick only constitutes a complementary unit, designed to play the partof half a brick, in combination with elements or units such as thatformed by the whole of Figure 1 (see full and dotted lines.)

For house walls the bricks will be formed by the combination of two ormore bricks like those in Figures 1 and 2, placed parallel opposite eachother and connected together by partitions 3 adapted to be recessed ateach end as shown at y in Figure 8. The combination of the profiles ofthe bricks a placed opposite each other with the partitions y formsempty spaces 9 intended to play the part of air passages in the wallconstructed by the aid of the bricks shown in Figures 3 to 9. The emptyspaces exlsting like the holes 5 over the whole height of a wall thusconstructed, may with advantage be utilized for receiving a metallicreinforce ment buried in cement. In this case the partitions will not berecessed at y in order to retain the cement run into the empty space 9by one of its ends.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention and in What manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatwhat I claim is:

1. A building block comprising a slab having a grooved edge face, and anadjacently disposed ribbed edge face and also having spacedsubstantially parallel bores each with enlarged ends at oppositelydisposed edge faces of the slab, each enlarged end of the said boresbeing adapted to receive a pin of uniform diameter with the shoulderformed by the enlarged end in the bore acting as a base for the end ofthe pin.

2. A building block comprising a slab having similarly disposed groovesin the adjacent edge faces thereof with ribs extending in substantiallyparallel positions in the opposite edges of the block, there also beingprovided in the block spaced substantially parallel bores each withenlarged ends, the said bores being adapted to receive pins of uniformdiameter, with the shoulders caused I by the enlarged ends of the boresacting as bases for the ends of said pins.

8. A building block comprising a plurality of slabs, each slab havingsubstantially parallel bores therein and each bore having enlarged endsadapted to receive a pin, the

end of which is seated on the shoulder formed by the enlarged end of thebore, spacer walls connecting the said slabs, and a rib extending alongone edge of each slab with a corresponding groove in the opposite edgethereof.

4. A building block comprising a plurality of slabs, each slab havingspaced substantially parallel bores, with each bore having enlarged endsadapted to receive a pin of uniform diameter so that the ends of eachpin may seat against the shoulders formed by the enlarged ends of thebores in adjacent slabs, and partition walls connecting the said slabsand maintaining the same in spaced positions, each of the said partitionWalls having an opening therein.

5. A building block comprising a plurality of slabs, each slab havingspaced substantially parallel bores, with each bore having enlarged endsadapted to receive a pin of uniform diameter so that the ends of eachpin may seat against the shoulders formed by the enlarged ends of thebores in adjacent slabs, partition walls connecting the said slabs andmaintaining the same in spaced positions, each of the said partitionwalls having an opening therein, and a rib extending along one edge ofeach slab with a corresponding groove extending along the opposite edgethereof.

6. A building block comprising a plurality of slabs, each slab havingspaced substan tially parallel bores, with each bore having enlargedends adapted to receive a pin of uniform diameter so that the ends ofeach pin may seat against the shoulders formed by the enlarged ends ofthe bores in adjacent slabs, partition walls connecting the said slabsand maintaining the same in spaced positions, each of the said partitionwalls having an opening therein, and ribs extending along adjacent edgesof each slab with corresponding grooves the opposite edges thereof.

In testimony whereof I afhx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDMOND QUILLET.

Witnesses HENRI EossInn, M. Rossinn.

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